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As part of the award’s ceremony the children from Corpus Christi's Basque Club theater group performed a skit and the winners of the contest were also present to read a part of their texts.  An announcement was also made at the event that there is hopes of publishing an anthology 2015 and that an “Amazing Stories VIII” is also foreseen. 

Corpus Christi, Argentina.   Invited by the Corpus Christi Basque club in the province of Misiones, the 7th edition of the Literary Contest “Amazing Stories,” was very well received by literary fans and in just a few months gathered four hundred entries, some even sent from abroad.

There were only 18 winners, nine in each category, with first, second and third places being awarded in each category, and several more receiving special mention. The best of the entries will be gathered, as in previous years, and the Yupanqui Atahualpa Library is hoping to create a paper or digital version of those.  

The award’s ceremony took place on September 6 at the Eusko Etxea and began with a welcome from club president, Julio Nestor Markiewicz Ferragut.  Next, the children from the Lagun Artean theater gropu performed a skit called “The Message of Yasy Yateré,” written and directed by members of the group.

When the awards were presented, winners who were able to travel to Corpus Christi read their texts.  There was also a tribute to Marta Macchi Echague who not only received a copy of the Anthology of the stories from 2011, but was also invited to join in next year’s jury for the contest to be held in 2016.

Following is a list of the winners:

Youth Category

Amazing Stories

First Place: New Toy, (Florencia Apud, 16 years old, S. M. de Tucumán, Tucumán)
Second Place: Aunt Poli, (Daiana Abigail Sosa, 13 years old, Apóstoles, Misiones)
Third Place: He who Knew, (Juan Ignacio Colarusso, 17 years old, Campana, Buenos Aires)
Special Mention The House on the Hill, (Daiana Abigail Sosa, 13 years old, Apóstoles, Misiones)
The Value of Friendship (Esther María Pérez González, 14 years old, Ciego de Avila, Cuba)
A Pair of Wings, (Lourdes De Carolis, 12 years old, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires)

Free Theme

First Place: Ankles (Juan Martín Torres, 16 years old, San Miguel, Buenos Aires)
Second Place: What would they like to Change? (Alina Barazzutti, 16 years old, La Plata, Buenos Aires)
Third Place: Value that is not Valued, (Giuliana Camelle, 14 years old, Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires)
Special Mention, The Princess and the Crazy Man  (Magalí Freijó, 16 years old)
The Meeting,  (Agustina Belén Campanella Carreño, 15 years old, Remedios de Escalada, Buenos Aires)

Life History

First Place: Among Dreams, (Florencia Arida, 15 years old, Del Viso, Buenos Aires)
Second Place: Epiphany, (Agostina Giuliana Molina, 18 years old, Chicligasta, Tucumán)
Third Place: Dangerous Tale, (Florencia Apud, 16 years old, S. M. de Tucumán, Tucumán)
Mención especial: Limbo, (Alina Barazzutti, 16 years old, La Plata, Buenos Aires).

Youth Category

Free Theme

First Place: Mirage, (Gloria Mabel Velasco de Mónaco, Resistencia, Chaco)
Second Place: Fidelity, (Luis Alberto García, Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires)
Third Place: Flight of Liberty, (Albert Carle Jordio Pla Andreu, Chapultepec. D. F. Mexico)
Special Mention: Adios, (Jacqueline Soto Marchant, Santiago, Chile)
Sunrise and Hope, (Patricia Verónica Lobos, Gral. Pico, La Pampa)
Forbidden Kiss at the Cholas. (Luis Carlos Reátegui del Águila, Lima, Peru)

Historias de Familia

First Place: Amazing Demolition, (Néstor Quadri, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires)
Second Place: A Yellow Tape and Old Oak, (José Regino Villalba, Posadas, Misiones)
Third Place: You Locked up my Last Days, (Camila Jael Novoa, Lanús, Buenos Aires)
Special Mention: A Shed, a Grandfather, a Coat and a Love, (María Alicia Camino, City of Buenos Aires)
Mickey’s Backpack, (Mariano Contrera, Lobos, Buenos Aires)
The Aunt and the Bandoneon, (Juan Ángel Cabaleiro, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán)

Amazing Story

First Place: Basement, (Miguel Ángel Azarmendia, Posadas, Misiones)
Second Place: Right Now, (Zully García, Canelones, Eastern Republic of Uruguay)
Third Place: Earth Odyssey, (Alberto Labrador Rubio, Mendoza)
Special Mention: An Invaded Hive, (Ada Inés Lerner, Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires)
The Roost, (María Gracia Morales Maldonado, Lima, Peru)
Pepper, (Miryam de los Milagros Galante, Resistencia, Chaco)